Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Blog 21st December 2018
Fri 21 Dec 2018Merry Christmas!
A fantastic last week of the autumn term.
Christmas parties all completed with very happy, excited children.
We are very proud to say that our behaviour records have shown an improvement in number of incidences this half term which is really positive as it's quite an excitable time of year.
Congratulations to Mrs Robinson's and Mr Almedia's classes for winning the whole class attendance award-they will select their whole class reward after the holidays.
Thank you to all the parents who took the time to complete the questionnaire, the feedback has been very useful and I will report on this in the new year with our actions. The questionnaire is now closed.
Below is an overview of the subject areas for next half term for your information. More details will be available on the class pages.
Class subjects for Spring 1 to share with parents
Class
Topic
English
Maths
Science
Reception
We’re going on a Journey
‘The train ride’ story rewriting
Addition and subtraction
Year 1
Where will our hot air balloon take us? Geographical features of capital cities.
Recounts and poetry.
‘The great balloon hullabaloo’
Multiplication and division
Weather and seasons
Year 2
What can the moonshine to life? ‘Moonshine dragon’
Writing to entertain; story maps
Using speech
Money
Shape
time
Classifying animals and Habitats
Year 3
Spain
Persuasion
Leaflets and posters
Multiplication and division
Forces and magnets
Year 4
Mountains and seas
Narrative and explanation
Fractions and time
Water
The water cycle
Year 5
Land of the free
( America)
Holes by Louis Sachar ( Narrative)
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Space
Year 6
Rich and poor
Work around the novel street child
All 4 operations,
Shape, angles
Electricity
After Christmas
We start school on the 7th January-it is a 6 week term finishing on Friday 15th February.
We wish you all a happy and safe Christmas and look forward to 2019.
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Air Ambulance thanks.
Thu 20 Dec 2018By using the clothes recycling bank ( located just inside the school gate) to collect 985KG of textiles in 2018 we have contributed to 3 lifesaving missions! Keep recycling those clothes-it really is making a difference. -
Tesco Reindeers
Tue 18 Dec 2018Sunflower and Lupin class created 3D reindeers from recycled materials for the Christmas lights switch on in Long Eaton. The reindeers are now on display in Long Eaton Tesco.
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Blog 14th December 2018
Fri 14 Dec 2018Welcome to friday's update.
Another busy week here at Dovedale!
The key stage 1 performances were brilliant-all little stars. A big thank you to the team and Mrs Howell and Mrs Bird for the costumes-once again they looked very professional!
A full governor's meeting was held this week for governors to review the school's self assessment and policies; we are grateful that we have such a committed team working behind the scenes.
Today of course was Christmas panto and Christmas jumper day. The children all looked resplendent in their jumpers and there was certainly a lot of 'Look behind yous!' Big thank you to our wonderful PTA for supporting this once again.
Don't forget to complete the parent questionnaire-we value your input and the more responses we get the better overall picture we can form of action points and things we are doing well.
The December newsletter is now in newsletters.
Next week
On Wednesday Lorna Cooper is in school in the morning if anyone needs to book an appointment to see her. This is a free confidential family support session.
The KS1 Christmas party is Wednesday afternoon; Lower Juniors on Thursday and Upper Juniors on Friday.
We break up on Friday 21st.
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Blog
Mon 10 Dec 2018Last week was a particularly busy week in school with the Reception performances, the year 3 and 4 Bazaar; parent's evening and Christmas dinner!
The reception children were all little stars and we were so proud of them; they were so confident!
The year 3 and 4 bazaar was very well organised and attended; lots of goodies to buy and brilliant singing! Well done to the team and the children.
We gave out our first 3 Ambassador badges on Friday during our well done assembly - well done for starting us off year 6.
The book fair collected £800 in commission which will be fed straight back in to school with a selection of lovely new books.
We are still endeavouring to get the new classroom build off to a start after the building company pulled out at the last minute in the summer. Once this is done we will benefit from new spaces for the year 6 classroom and a nurture space as well as a library/meeting room space! We can't wait.
This week we will be treated to the year 1 and 2 Christmas performances and the christmas jumper and Panto day on Friday.
